Officers with the New Castle County Division of Police responded on Thursday, January 8, 2026, to the area of Rhode Island Avenue and Wagoner Drive in the Woodland Park community for a reported robbery that had occurred the previous day.
According to investigators, the victim told officers he had arranged to sell several watches he advertised on a social media account. A prospective buyer directed him to park in a designated location to complete the transaction. While seated inside his vehicle, the victim was approached by masked individuals armed with a handgun. The suspects demanded the watches and then fled the area in a vehicle.
Detectives assigned to the Criminal Investigations Unit assumed the investigation and later identified the suspects as 19-year-old Julien Dunne of Elsmere and 18-year-old John Shaw III of Wilmington, officials said…